ELIZA Reanimated: The world's first chatbot restored on the world's first time sharing system

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Auteurs principaux: Lane, Rupert, Hay, Anthony, Schwarz, Arthur, Berry, David M., Shrager, Jeff
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author Lane, Rupert
Hay, Anthony
Schwarz, Arthur
Berry, David M.
Shrager, Jeff
author_facet Lane, Rupert
Hay, Anthony
Schwarz, Arthur
Berry, David M.
Shrager, Jeff
contents ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the early 1960s, is usually considered the world's first chatbot. It was developed in MAD-SLIP on MIT's CTSS, the world's first time-sharing system, on an IBM 7094. We discovered an original ELIZA printout in Prof. Weizenbaum's archives at MIT, including an early version of the famous DOCTOR script, a nearly complete version of the MAD-SLIP code, and various support functions in MAD and FAP. Here we describe the reanimation of this original ELIZA on a restored CTSS, itself running on an emulated IBM 7094. The entire stack is open source, so that any user of a unix-like OS can run the world's first chatbot on the world's first time-sharing system.
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spellingShingle ELIZA Reanimated: The world's first chatbot restored on the world's first time sharing system
Lane, Rupert
Hay, Anthony
Schwarz, Arthur
Berry, David M.
Shrager, Jeff
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
Symbolic Computation
ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the early 1960s, is usually considered the world's first chatbot. It was developed in MAD-SLIP on MIT's CTSS, the world's first time-sharing system, on an IBM 7094. We discovered an original ELIZA printout in Prof. Weizenbaum's archives at MIT, including an early version of the famous DOCTOR script, a nearly complete version of the MAD-SLIP code, and various support functions in MAD and FAP. Here we describe the reanimation of this original ELIZA on a restored CTSS, itself running on an emulated IBM 7094. The entire stack is open source, so that any user of a unix-like OS can run the world's first chatbot on the world's first time-sharing system.
title ELIZA Reanimated: The world's first chatbot restored on the world's first time sharing system
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
Symbolic Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06707